Poland’s state election commission has rejected the registration of two presidential candidates for invalid signatures, including data of the deceased.
Poland’s state election commission refused to register two candidates for presidential candidacy. This is a former MP of Law and Justice (PIS) Dawid Jackiewicz and activist of the Polish minority in Germany Wieslaw Lewicky. The reason was serious irregularities in the lists of signatures, which also contained data of the deceased. This is reported by the Warsaw Newsletter TASR according to the report of PAP.
According to the Commission, Jackiewicz submitted more than 148,000 signatures, but up to 66,000 of them were invalid, and in 2,881 cases it was signatures kept in the currencies of dead citizens. In the case of Lewicky out of 141,000 signatures, 46,000 were invalid and 5,805 belonged to the deceased. The Commission stated that both candidates did not meet the legal limit of the 100,000 valid signatures necessary for registration.
Registered candidates
So far, the Commission has registered 12 candidates. Applicants could apply for registration by April 4. The presidential elections in Poland will take place on 18 May, the possible second round is scheduled for 1 June. According to the latest survey of the IBRIS Institute for Rzeczpospolita, the candidate of the government civic coalition with a support of 36 percent would be won. The second would end a candidate supported by PIS Karol Nawrocki with 23 percent.
